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Tiger Woods biopic in the works with the Obamas set to produce


Star golfer’s life will become an Amazon MGM movie with King Richard director Reinaldo Marcus Green at the helm

The film will expound on Woods’s early career, which has in recent years been marred by injury; just this week, he underwent emergency surgery on his Achilles tendon, all buy guaranteeing that he will miss the Masters for only the fifth time since his debut in 1995. In the past couple years, the company produced two basketball projects – Court of Gold, on the 2024 Paris Olympics, and Starting 5, on the 2023-2024 NBA season – both for Netflix. In February, he visited with president and noted golf enthusiast Donald Trump at the White House for a reception marking Black History Month, as well as discussions on the future of the sport amid divisions on the elite circuit.

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